Purism Shares The Latest Librem 5 Smartphone Progress - Dev Kits Going Out Soon

[Vistaus]

Perfect work !! I wish them risc-v phone in the future !

But that's going to take a long time, I think, 'cause last time I looked at a RISC-V board picture, which was quite recently, it was waaaaay too big to fit in a phone form factor.

[Vistaus]

I applaud the Purism devs for their steady progress on this. I'd much rather wait a while longer for a phone done right than get a partially complete phone on-time. As long as they keep going like this, I believe they will succeed where others have failed.

Let's hope so. We don't want yet another Openmoko-like failed company...

[Danielsan]

You joke but 'Boot To Gecko' (Firefox OS, now KaiOS) is fast becoming the 2nd largest mobile OS in the 3rd world having overtaken iOS.

iOs and 3rd world is a very weird match... 🙄

[Flaburgan]

Firefox OS was awesome. It's a shame Mozilla stopped it when it was finally becoming usable.

[Danielsan]

I bet the reason why FirefoxOS wasn't a good choice is because the Firefox patents

[Spazturtle]

Indeed. Besides the far past, i also hooked into a firefox os LTE open thing. /facepalm

You joke but 'Boot To Gecko' (Firefox OS, now KaiOS) is fast becoming the 2nd largest mobile OS in the 3rd world having overtaken iOS.

Kudos to them for still not having given up on doing touch with a suboptimal toolkit. I guess sometimes the harder road can be more fun.

[SpyroRyder]

Perfect work !! I wish them risc-v phone in the future !

Just as soon as they release a riskv CPU that is actually comparable to most Arm cores

[lilos]

Perfect work !! I wish them risc-v phone in the future !

[tildearrow]

Somebody please change that keyboard and top bar font...